since 1999 infantmortalityrates have been lower than birthrates for Hispanics, Asian/Pacific Islanders, and White, whereas infantmortalityrates have been higher than birthrates for Blacks. ...Infantmortalityrates are associated Percentage with maternal health status, access to health care, and public Birth RateDeathRate health practices. Asian/Pacific Islander Black Implications

to live births (10%). While the 2008-2010 white infantmortalityrate of 5.2 deaths per 1 ... 0 deaths per 1, 000 live births, the infantmortalityrate for African Americans, at 14 deaths per 1, 000 live births, was well above this objective (Table 2). ... Table 1. Number (and Percent) of InfantDeaths and Births by Race/Ethnicity

TABLE 67 INFANTDEATHS BY ETHNICITY OF INFANT, AGE AND BIRTH WEIGHT RESIDENTS, 1999 BIRTH WEIGHT Under AGE OF INFANT (DAYS) Under 1 Day Over 27 Total grams grams ... of infantdeaths per 1, 000 live births b/ Birth weights under 2, 500 grams are considered ... A-52 INFANTDEATHS A-53

Table 6: InfantMortalityRate per 1000 Births by Race (percentage) Section White Black and other Total ABBC Alabama Source: Center for Health Statistics, Alabama Department of Public Health. 2000 County Health Profiles. ... in the infantmortalityrate among the ABBC we report only the ABBC average in comparison ... Table 6 presents the infantmortality per 1000 births for ABBC and Alabama. The infantmortalityrate is often used both as an indicator of the general health